TIFF is one of the earliest file formats for bitmap images, but it is still one of the most popular. It supports various resolutions and can be opened on any platform. Usually it stores large images with good quality, but not text or vector data. But it can include additional tags to identify an image. TIFF format is used in graphic and 3-D imaging applications, scanning and faxing software.

PNG images provide lossless compression, that is why the quality of the picture is nice, but the size of the file is huge. Because of it this file format is used by photographers. PNG may have several layers of transparency and even include short text descriptions which help search engines to examine the file. Although PNG was developed to replace GIF and partly other formats, it doesn’t support animation since it can’t contain several images like GIF.